History story of the decade: France and Britain considered merging into one country in the 1950s. (More, more.) It was all in the context of the Suez Crisis of 1956. Freaky.
The French prime minister, Guy Mollet, argued that the French wouldn’t have any problem with, oh, becoming subjects of Queen Elizabeth. I suspect Guy was not a good judge of his people’s thoughts; if the plan had ever become public, I’d wager we would have seen the Fifth Republic a few years earlier than we did.
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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